FAMDEM

MDEM: Family Analysts Meeting to Discuss Emerging Manuscripts

FAMDEM, originated in Fall 2008, is a friendly, informal group for students, faculty, and postdocs to present early results from (and get feedback on) their research on Family Demography. Families are central to many social processes at the macro and micro levels. Marriage and childcare continue to be highly gendered, with implications for stratification in the workplace. Changes in work and social policy over the past century have had profound implications for social expectations about marriage, fertility, and intergenerational relationships. Families continue to link the opportunities of children to those of their parents and thus families are still central to (re)production of the next generation. These are some of the topics of research FAMDEM members discuss at meetings.

We meet from 1:30-2:30 Wednesday, every other week, in the fishbowl conference room.

Upcoming presentations

February 15: Kate Prickett, "The End of Intensive Motherhood? The Changing Role of Education and Work in TIme Focused on Children from 2003-2015."

March 1: Shannon Cavanagh, Chelsea Smith Gonzalez, Rachel Behler, Beth Cozzolino and Robert Ressler, “Young Adults’ Union Formation Sequences and the Great Recession”

March 8: Diane Coffee and Dean Spears, “Neonatal mortality sharply decreases in birth order in India”

 March 15: Liz Ackert, “Extended households, pre-K enrollment, and school readiness”

 March 29: Rachel Donnelly

 April 5: Inbar Weiss, "Marriage to recent arrival immigrants and importation of spouses as ethnic preservation practices."

 April 12: Jennifer Glass, TBD

Recent presentations

November 16: Beth Cozzolino, "Jail for Child Support Debt in Fragile Families." (Rob Crosnoe and Julie Skalamera Olson discussants).

October 26: Rachel Behler, "The Social Embeddedness of Sexual Networks"

October 12: Ken-Hou Lin, "Growing Part: The Changing Firm-Size Wage Premium and its Inequality Consequences" (Jennifer Glass and Aida Villanueva discussants)

August 31: Liz Ackert (w/ Robert Ressler, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe), "Family Necessity, Community Needs, and the Selection of Children from Mexican Immigrant Families into Early Childhood Care and Education" (Shannon Cavanagh and Inbar Weiss discussants)

 July 13: Inbar Weiss and Kevin Dahaghi “Indebted, Unmarried, but Educated: Difference in Marriage Patterns among U.S Young Adult” (Haley Stritzel and Ken-Hou Lin discussants)

 May 4:  Aida Villanueva (w/ Ken-Hou Lin), “Motherhood Wage Penalties and the Informal Sector in Latin America”

 April 20:  Liz Ackert, "Kin Location and Disparities in Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Attainment"

 April 6: Shannon Cavanagh, (w/ Kate Prickett, and Julie Skalamera), “Instability and Mental Health”